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Ep. 1 - Preface - The Confessions of Nat Turner · Confessions of Nat Turner, Insurrectionist

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  Preface District of Columbia, to wit be it remembered that on this tenth day
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  of November Ono Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty one, Thomas R. Gray
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  of the said District, deposited in this office the title of a book which
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  is in the words as following the confessions of Nat Turner, the leader of
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  the late insurrection in Southampton, Virginia, as fully and voluntarily made to Thomas
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  R. Gray in the prison where he was confined, and acknowledged by him
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  to be such when read before the Court of Southampton, with the certificate under
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  seal of the Court convened at Jerusalem, November eighteen thirty one for his trial.
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  Also an authentic account of the whole insurrection, with lists of the whites
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  who were murdered and of the negroes brought before the Court of Southampton, and
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  their sentence to and et cetera. The right whereof he claims as proprietor in
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  conformity with an Act of Congress entitled an Act to Amend the several Acts respecting
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  copyrights. Edmund J. Lee, Clerk of the District, in testament that
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  the above is a true copy from the record the District Court for the District
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  of Columbia I Edmund I. Lee, the Clerk thereof, have here unto
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  set my hand and affix the seal of my office, this tenth day of
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  November eighteen thirty one, Edmund J. Lee, C d C. And of preface